'I need to feel like I'm more than just sex on legs," complained stripper accused of murdering former lover

Mark Russell

Stripper Robyn Lindholm first met the man she is accused of murdering, Wayne Amey, when she was performing at a businessmen's lunch under the professional name of "Collette".

Court documents released to Fairfax Media revealed Lindholm claimed she later had an on-again, off-again relationship with Mr Amey, a Hawthorn gym owner, for eight years. He was attacked and murdered in December last year.

Lindholm, 41, has been commited to stand trial in the Supreme court alongside two men she allegedly engaged to kill Mr Amey, Torsten Trabert, 45, and John Ryan, 37, after pleading not guilty to murder.

A recent committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court was told Ms Lindholm had been in a relationship with Mr Amey that ended badly. They had been due in court over a property dispute involving a farm they owned at Bittern, south-east of Melbourne, the day after Mr Amey was attacked and disappeared.

A number of text messages between Ms Lindholm and Mr Amey were tendered in court as part of the police brief of evidence against her.

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Mr Amey sent one text message to Ms Lindholm that read: "Your mother rang. Tell her to back off. You have got yourself in this position from a LIFETIME of lies, deception, drug abuse, selfishness and hate.

And you know it. If you had any decency you'd take some responsibility, get a job, support yourself, not expect a free ride or live off drugs ..."

Another text read: "Look at that ring on your finger Rob. The one I designed, had made and ask you to marry me with, AND I MEANT IT. What better chance could anyone get? You cheated on that ring and me. Remember that when it's on your finger next time you sleep with him."

One of Ms Lindholm's texts read: "Wayne you wouldn't take me back. I tried for months. After I recognised my mistakes you still rejected me. I was only good enough to f..k. That was all. When I f..ked up I was in a bad place lonely and messed up. I know that hurt and I don't know why I did it but the last few months when I begged to come home and I wanted you more than anything you still rejected me continuously. And took everything away. I need to feel like I'm more than just sex on legs. There's Robyn here too not just Collette."

In another text Ms Lindholm said: "If you make my life any harder than you already have you will regret it Wayne."

In a record of interview with police after her arrest, Lindholm claimed she had grown up around the Mount Waverley area and had once performed as an ice skater with Olympic ice skating champions Torvill and Dean. She later became a freelance stripper, working for companies such as 'Tops to Bottoms', 'Simply Irresistible', 'Maxine's' and 'Just Striptease'.

Ms Lindholm claimed she and Mr Amey first split up in 2011 but Mr Amey "always wanted to have sex with me, regardless". "It was, like, he was very into that and whenever he got drunk or smashed he used to call me and that was right up until not long ago," she told police. "We used to do a lot of threesomes and he used to get me to bring girls home a lot."

Ms Lindholm said there was never any violence in their relationship. "He was never mean to me, he was kind to me. And yeah we loved each other but we just grew apart. I would never let anyone hurt Wayne 'cause he's never hurt me. He was always good to me."

Ms Lindholm told police she knew nothing about Mr Amey's murder before his body was found wedged between boulders at a peak on the north side of Mount Korong on December 18. The cause of death was multiple injuries including stab wounds, fractured ribs and neck injuries.

Mr Trabert and Mr Ryan have both accused each other of killing Mr Amey and claim Ms Lindholm was with them when they dumped the body, but she denies this.

"There was no agreement to take care of Wayne," Ms Lindholm told police. She also claimed to have not slept for a week while using the drug ice before her arrest.

John Ryan told police Ms Lindholm had been "laughing and carrying (on) like it was nothing" when they were driving to Mount Korong with Mr Amey's body in the back of his ute. "She's like on top of the world ...," Mr Ryan said.

After dumping the body, Mr Ryan said, "It was like, I don't know, they (Ms Lindholm and Mr Trabert) wanted to f...ing party and I just felt ill, ill the whole way."

Ms Lindholm, Mr Trabert and Mr Ryan have been remanded to appear in the Supreme Court for a directions hearing on August 29.